30-minute weekly radio program for August 17, 2010. Second of 2 parts.
In this installment, Canadian health-care activist Susan Rosenthal, MD, discusses (1) Engels' expose' of the horrors of working-class life during the Industrial Revolution (1845), (2) the problems with Canada's "single-payer" health-care system, (3) how the profit motive and computers have brought us "assembly-line medicine," and (4) the successful health-care reforms established in Chile, under Allende, in the 1970s. From our telephone conversation of July 2.
Part 1 is installment #123, archived here.
http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com . Permanent link to the blog entry for this installment: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/class-health-health-care.html .
Susan Rosenthal's new book--Sick and Sicker: Essays on Class, Health and Health Care--is available in paperback (from her) or as a "Kindle" electronic book from Amazon.com. http://susanrosenthal.com/ .
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